The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu depicts the quickness with which some in India abandoned the ‘we do not need the validation of the West’ bandwagon when Indian cinema scored two significant wins at the 95th Academy Awards. Composer M.M. Keeravani’s Naatu Naatu from Telugu blockbuster RRR won the Oscar for Best Original Song, while The Elephant Whisperers — a documentary directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and produced by Guneet Monga — won the Oscar for Best Documentary Film.
Vishnu Madhav illustrates the hazards of getting lost in translation in an apparent reference to how some Malayali media outlets took Naatu Naatu composer Keeravani’s remarks that he grew up listening to the American duo, The Carpenters, too literally.
Alluding to The Elephant Whisperers bagging the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, Sajith Kumar gives his take on how politicians in India want the economy — symbolised by an elephant — to ‘overact’ in order to shore up their electoral prospects.
Drawing on a line from The Communist Manifesto (‘A spectre is haunting Europe’), R. Prasad comments on the Kerala government reaching out to the New York Fire Department for advice on how to douse a fire that engulfed a waste treatment plant in Kochi’s Brahmapuram on 2 March.
E.P. Unny spotlights the central government’s affidavit opposing same-sex marriages in the backdrop of the tug of war between the executive and the judiciary over their respective interpretations of the Supreme Court’s Basic Structure doctrine.
India needs fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism, packed with on-ground reporting. ThePrint – with exceptional reporters, columnists and editors – is doing just that.
Sustaining this needs support from wonderful readers like you.
Whether you live in India or overseas, you can take a paid subscription by clicking here.